Yehudi Menuhin
American violinist and conductor (1916-1999) · United States · Musicians · Died at 82 · also United Kingdom · also Switzerland
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Something wrong?A violinist who played at a level that made "one of the greatest of the 20th century" feel like understatement rather than hype. Born American, he became British and Swiss, but the instrument was the through-line - a performing career spent mostly in Britain, conducting later, the bow always central.
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Menuhin with Bruno Walter (1929)
The city of Basel: place of study under the guidance of Adolf Busch
Menuhin in 1943
Menuhin during a 1963 visit to Israel. Boris Carmi, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
Stéphane Grappelli (left) with Menuhin in 1976
Menuhin (left) and author Paulo Coelho in 1999 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, SwitzerlandIn their own words 10
, The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing.
Obliged to find an apartment of their own, my parents searched the neighbourhood and chose one within walking distance of the park.
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Yehudi Menuhin was born on 22 April 1916 in America, but his life would map itself onto other ground. He became a violinist whose command of the instrument set a standard for the century - technique and feeling both present, neither one winning. Most of his performing career unfolded in Britain, where he eventually took citizenship, adding Swiss nationality as well. Later he moved into conducting, expanding the repertoire of what he could shape. He died on 12 March 1999, having been named Baron Menuhin and having left recordings that still serve as reference points for how the violin can sound when everything aligns.
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